Appendix:Finnish dialectal variants of the personal pronouns
The personal pronouns in Finnish exhibit considerable dialectal variation. The following maps illustrate the variants.
- minä, first-person singular personal pronoun
- Distribution according to Suomen murteiden sanakirja (data from the early 20th century)
- Map #112 of Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas (published 1940)
- Map #113 of Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas, showing the genitive forms
- More modern maps, based on surveys, have been published by Yle in 2022
- sinä, second-person singular personal pronoun
- Effectively aligns with minä above; Kettunen's maps show both. A curiosity is nää, found in Oulu.
- hän, third-person singular personal pronoun
- Distribution according to Suomen murteiden sanakirja (data from the early 20th century)
- In most dialects, se is used instead in most cases.
- me, first-person plural personal pronoun
- Distribution according to Suomen murteiden sanakirja (data from the early 20th century)
- Map #29 of Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas (published 1940)
- Map #79 of Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas, showing the genitive forms
- Map #80 of Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas, showing regions traditionally using a special form of the genitive to represent ownership specifically
- te, second-person plural personal pronoun
- Effectively aligns with me above; Kettunen's maps show all three.
- he, third-person singular personal pronoun
- Mostly aligns with me above; Kettunen's maps show all three.
- Distribution according to Suomen murteiden sanakirja (data from the early 20th century)
- In most dialects, ne is used instead in most cases.